Chris Swan

With not making the time cut at redlands, another team mate and I decided to head up to Santa Cruz and ride a crit.  I definatly didnt have the legs for redlands(Oregon winter training, and only 4 prior races just werent enough to beat the legs into race shape for redlands) but a rest day [...]

Today was stage one of redlands(prologue was just a prologue).  It was crazy starting with 200 riders, youd move up and pass about 100 guys, look back and find out you were still at the back.  The course had a couple of short climbs and a long gradual climb, small grade but you had to [...]

Today was the first day of Redlands, and it started with a gnarly course.  Short, but had a little hill that came with a nice bite.  Still dont seem to have all my power back from puking it all out last week, but I felt better than going into brisbane, but enough with the excuses, [...]

Ive got lots of homework in the rear view, the winter term is finally done, and hard bike racing has come.  Brisbane spanked me pretty good, the power just wasn’t in my legs after some mid week food poisoning and not eating for a good 40 hours.  The rest of the Z boyz represented though, with McCook taking [...]